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A manipulated video shared by Musk mimics Harris' voice, raising concerns about AI in politics

A manipulated video that mimics the voice of Vice President Kamala Harrissaying things she did not say is raising concerns about the power of artificial intelligence to mislead with Election Day about three months away.

The video gained attention after tech billionaire Elon Musk shared it on his social media platform X on Friday evening without explicitly noting it was originally released as parody.

The video uses many of the same visuals as a real ad that Harris, the likely Democratic president nominee, released last week launching her campaign. But the video swaps out the voice-over audio with another voice that convincingly impersonates Harris.

Myxomatosis ,

Elon is a cancer on society.

dactylotheca ,
@dactylotheca@suppo.fi avatar

Conservatives are a cancer on society

sunzu ,

Billionaires?

Chozo ,

A cancer on society.

disguy_ovahea ,

What about cancer?

Nurse_Robot ,

An Elon to the body, and society

Someplaceunknown ,
@Someplaceunknown@fedia.io avatar

A cancer on society

Wiz ,

An Elon on society.

nokturne213 ,

An Elon on society.

Track_Shovel ,

https://slrpnk.net/pictrs/image/21db39d1-8ab8-4712-ba04-f6d01f83cd19.webp

Myxomatosis ,

They deserve to be taxed until they no longer exist.

VelvetStorm ,

Somebody should do something about it. https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/4882a1d7-faad-48f6-a7a5-6fb6d52ff54f.jpeg

tiefling ,

Surely this is illegal, right? Right??

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Ranvier ,

In Minnesota it is illegal up to 90 days before the election.

www.revisor.mn.gov/bills/text.php?number=HF1370&t…

I don’t know all the state laws, but there are more.

nbcnews.com/…/artificial-intelligence-deepfakes-2…

dohpaz42 , (edited )
@dohpaz42@lemmy.world avatar

That’s for sexual acts. I’m still reading it though, but where does elections come into play?

Edit: found it. Section 2. Sorry.

Sec. 2. [609.771] USE OF DEEP FAKE TECHNOLOGY TO INFLUENCE AN ELECTION.

Subdivision 1. Definitions. (a) As used in this section, the following terms have the meanings given.

(b) “Candidate” means an individual who seeks nomination or election to a federal, statewide, legislative, judicial, or local office including special districts, school districts, towns, home rule charter and statutory cities, and counties.

© “Deep fake” means any video recording, motion-picture film, sound recording, electronic image, or photograph, or any technological representation of speech or conduct substantially derivative thereof:

(1) that is so realistic that a reasonable person would believe it depicts speech or conduct of an individual who did not in fact engage in such speech or conduct; and

(2) the production of which was substantially dependent upon technical means, rather than the ability of another individual to physically or verbally impersonate such individual.

(d) “Depicted individual” means an individual in a deep fake who appears to be engaging in speech or conduct in which the individual did not engage.

Subd. 2. Use of deep fake to influence an election; violation. A person who disseminates a deep fake or enters into a contract or other agreement to disseminate a deep fake is guilty of a crime and may be sentenced as provided in subdivision 3 if the person knows or reasonably should know that the item being disseminated is a deep fake and dissemination:

(1) takes place within 90 days before an election;

(2) is made without the consent of the depicted individual; and

(3) is made with the intent to injure a candidate or influence the result of an election.

Subd. 3. Use of deep fake to influence an election; penalty. A person convicted of violating subdivision 2 may be sentenced as follows:

(1) if the person commits the violation within five years of one or more prior convictions under this section, to imprisonment for not more than five years or to payment of a fine of not more than $10,000, or both;

(2) if the person commits the violation with the intent to cause violence or bodily harm, to imprisonment for not more than one year or to payment of a fine of not more than $3,000, or both; or

(3) in other cases, to imprisonment for not more than 90 days or to payment of a fine of not more than $1,000, or both.

Subd. 4. Injunctive relief. A cause of action for injunctive relief may be maintained against any person who is reasonably believed to be about to violate or who is in the course of violating this section by:

(1) the attorney general;

(2) a county attorney or city attorney;

(3) the depicted individual; or

(4) a candidate for nomination or election to a public office who is injured or likely to be injured by dissemination.

EFFECTIVE DATE. This section is effective August 1, 2023, and applies to crimes committed on or after that date.

ReallyActuallyFrankenstein ,

So if Musk doesn’t delete his post before (let’s see) August 7, he is still arguably disseminating it, huh?

dohpaz42 ,
@dohpaz42@lemmy.world avatar

Just read through the part about punishment, and it’d be 90 days in jail and a $1000 fine. Even I could afford that. 🙄

ReallyActuallyFrankenstein ,

It’s the jail time that’s important. I’d guess Musk would spend a billion dollars to not have to go to jail for 90 days.

Ranvier ,

Also we’re 100 days out. If Elon did this again within 90 days, and he sent the tweet from Texas or something. Would Minnesota or another state law be able to hold him accountable? Since of course the tweet would be seen across the country. I wonder what would happen. The senate is working on a federal law, but I doubt the house will be very cooperative before the election.

HurlingDurling ,
@HurlingDurling@lemmy.world avatar

It might be… But if it wasn’t, someone shouldn’t make a video of Trump talking about that he already won and that no one needs to vote… Please don’t do this! It would be very wrong if someone did this! His supporters might be filled and stay home…

No one do this!

MagicShel ,

I… hmmmm… I feel like there’s a secret message here waiting to be decoded.

cranakis ,

(The video) claims Harris is a “diversity hire” because she is a woman and a person of color, and it says she doesn’t know “the first thing about running the country.”

Classy as always right wingers. /s

g0nz0li0 ,

“This former AG, Senator, and VP has no idea how to run this country!” - Conservative Clowns everywhere.

Wiz ,

But the game show host and the hillbilly writer can run the country, Amiright?

SpaceCowboy ,
@SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca avatar

Hey now… he was also the inspiration for most of the villains in the movies we watched as kids.

pastabatman ,

It’s not mentioned in the article, but the fake voice in the video also says “Another trick I have is to try and sound black.” It’s really bad.

EleventhHour ,
@EleventhHour@lemmy.world avatar

we knew this was coming. no shock it came from this cum rag

can ,

Shouldn’t conercerns already be raised pretty high.

Atelopus-zeteki ,
@Atelopus-zeteki@kbin.run avatar

Indeed! I'm also extremely concerned about musk/billionaires in politics. Gee, am I over reacting? /s

Alexstarfire ,

It was one of the first anyone thought of. Not sure how they think this is a new concern.

DogPeePoo ,

This Elon Musk Tweet was bought and paid for by Russia and Saudi Arabia— and sponsored by the letter Q and the number 88

thanks_shakey_snake ,

Any way to see the video without making an X account and scrolling Musk’s feed? Two things I’d rather not do.

SteveFromMySpace ,

I’m glad it’s not easy because it shouldn’t be disseminated

thanks_shakey_snake ,

Gotta hard disagree with you there, friend… Although I see the merit in that, I think we should be taking examples like this and sharing them around with crystal clear context that:

  • This is a troubling blend of real and fake, and it’s easy to not notice which parts are which
  • This is a new category of propaganda that we aren’t ready for
  • Even though this one is pretty easy to clock as fake satire, it’s not hard to imagine nudging a few degrees away from tongue-in-cheek and toward deliberately deceitful, and holy shit is that going to be scary

Like I know lots of people who don’t know that this sort of thing is even remotely possible, and would have a hard time understanding how to contextualize it, even if they sense something fishy about it. They need to see and hear these deepfake-adjacent materials first hand with context to innoculate against the truly deceptive stuff that they’ll be exposed to.

SteveFromMySpace ,

I really do see your point but like deplatforming my instinct is “out of sight out of mind.”

thanks_shakey_snake ,

I see your point, too! I think to the degree that the story is about Elon showing us who he is, it makes sense to just give the dumpster fire less oxygen to burn… But to the degree that it’s about AI eroding our ability to understand truth, I think we need as much exposure as possible to things like this while we can recognize them.

I think a reasonable person could land in either place in this instance.

brbposting ,

Even though this one is pretty easy to clock as fake satire

By 30s in to the 1m52s video, when she calls Biden a deep state puppet, is where it’ll be obvious to (I hope) 99% of the population. Prob not quite that high though. But yeah. Wanna emphasize it’s not a deepfake of her supposedly spicy stuff…

It’s what an idiot thinks is cunning satire.

It’s dangerous, of course, but don’t want folks to get the wrong message. We might be at an early stage of Musk testing what he can get away with w/r/t political deepfakes - maybe the next one will be dicier. Or maybe not, he can be awful without faking a thing.

SpaceCowboy ,
@SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca avatar

It also feels like there’s something subliminal about it. Like you’re hearing her voice saying she’s a deep state puppet then cut to her actually making a mistake in a speech (but it’s using old school editing techniques there too) and then back to the deepfake voice back to the actual video of her.

Sure when you see it you know which is her and which is the deepfake. But later if you see some of those actual clips again, you might recall seeing it somewhere before and then vaguely recall some of the things the deepfake voice said along with it.

It’s very insidious really. Memories are a weird thing and I don’t know if it’s been studied what kind of effect this sort of thing could have on people. So I don’t know. But it seems plausible that you could create false memories of someone saying something they didn’t say by intercutting things they did say with a deep fake of things they didn’t say.

Stopthatgirl7 OP ,
@Stopthatgirl7@lemmy.world avatar

Here’s a direct link to the tweet, but I’m not sure if you can watch the video without an account anymore: x.com/elonmusk/status/1816974609637417112?s=46&t=…

thanks_shakey_snake ,

Oh, I actually was able to see it without an account-- Thank you for finding/sharing the link!

It’s uh… Pretty much exactly what it sounded like from the article. It’s pretty clear to me that it’s satire and fake, but I’m not sure that it would be to, say, some of my family members.

pastabatman ,

It’s worse than I thought from the article. Outrageously and overtly racist.

p5yk0t1km1r4ge ,
@p5yk0t1km1r4ge@lemmy.world avatar

Can somebody please just take one for the team and beat the living shit out of this dumbfuck within an inch of his cushy billionaire life so he shuts the hell up?

ThePantser ,
@ThePantser@lemmy.world avatar

Be the change you want to see in the world

radivojevic ,

Technically, anyone sharing this-who knows it’s fake-should be tried and convicted for election interference and treason.

dohpaz42 ,
@dohpaz42@lemmy.world avatar

I would hope this falls under libel laws and makes Musk culpable for a lawsuit and/or gag order.

doodledup ,

Why is there no link to the video? Did he even post that? I’m not even seing it on his Twitter.

Stopthatgirl7 OP , (edited )
@Stopthatgirl7@lemmy.world avatar

You didn’t look very hard.

doodledup ,

Thanks. It doesn’t show up on his profile. And the articles don’t have a link to it. That’s why I couldn’t.

brbposting ,

Big Brainlon messes up profiles if not logged in. Super whack out-of-order random Tweets.

Login to dumpsterfire, scroll a bit, there’s the amazing witty satire:

https://sh.itjust.works/pictrs/image/a45e53e9-1c93-47a4-b411-0175ea02a542.jpeg

(Am assuming there’s no A/B test stuff going on)

homesweethomeMrL ,

Shouldn’t that guy be trying to save at least one of his companies from the ever increasing explosions of shit and bad management that “somehow” seem to plague them?

lolcatnip ,

How could he do that? He is the bad management.

Coach ,

raising concerns about AI in politics

Anyone else more concerned about narcissistic bigoted billionaires in politics? 🙋‍♂️

SpaceCowboy ,
@SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca avatar

Why not both?

Yurgenst ,

All I see is implied permission to post AI Elon videos all over Twitter.

NidoranDuran ,
@NidoranDuran@kbin.run avatar

This is, what, how many total times Elon has shared something like this on Twitter where his intention has been (at the very least) dubious?

I find very few reasons to give him the benefit of the doubt here by treating it as some "haha funny meme XD" reaction from him.

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